27 thoughts on “News/Politics 7-26-24

  1. Thank Democrats, because that’s who built this, top down.

    https://x.com/NickMinock/status/1816613677727879190?t=U9b-GR3JThnld4m8tjGk6g&s=19

    “New: The Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office told me there have been 725 “undocumented individuals” in the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center in the last 12 months and they only transferred 3 to ICE.

    Some of those inmates have committed violent crimes and child sex crimes, yet Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Kincaid refuses to honor ICE immigration detainers and says she requires a judicial warrant.”

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  2. Democrats never let facts get in the way of the narratives they push.

    https://x.com/kleavittnh/status/1816558690729644105?t=gtaAMV3IFtwoI9SURnArHQ&s=19

    “As a new mom, my heart aches for women who are unable to bear children.

    @JDVance words are being taken out of context and unfairly attacked.

    Here are his full comments from 2021:

    “A lot of people are unable to have kids for very complicated and important reasons…there are people of course for biological reasons, medical reasons that can’t have children. The target of these remarks is not them.”

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  3. Actually, we do all start out the same. Naked babies. Of course, some of those babies have been given nutrition while others are given alcohol and drugs. That experience continues or adjusts and then each becomes responsible for the gift of life given to them. How do we steward what we are responsible for? Does not matter where or when we are born, we are responsible, nobody else.

    mumsee

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  4. And then scripture tells us that to whom much is given, much is required. Sometimes we are given more confidence than others, sometimes more love, sometimes more material things, whatever it is we are to use for God’s glory.

    That is true of nations as well, I think. I am saddened what we have squandered as a nation God has blessed so much. How you do it as a nation takes much wisdom and I don’t know that we have much of that in our leadership. 😦

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  5. Netflix fans? We aren’t.

    Reed Hastings, executive chairman of Netflix, donated $7 million to a super PAC supporting VP Kamala Harris’ presidential election campaign — the largest single campaign contribution the streaming mogul has ever made, Variety has confirmed.

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  6. The right side of the media and internet is slicing and dicing Harris videos and tossing every slogan imaginable to see what will stick, yet somehow we have to believe the border is at its worst ever and JD Vance is being mistreated by slice and dice videos.

    Illegal migration hit its peak in 2007 and dropped to almost nothing in the 2008 crash. It slowly went up until 2020 when it dropped again. And now its working its way back up in numbers. It’s like there are other factors other than who is in the White House.

    And then there is JD Vance, the author of his own demise. The republican convention did nothing but call out to its base and making Vance the VP running mate did nothing to help the failure of the RNC. He’s polling in the negative in terms of how he affects the race.

    The Trump campaign occasionally goes into amateur mode and incidents around Vance demonstrate it. After announcing the VP, people did a deep dive into his online profile and found his Venmo account public — most of his donors appear to be wealthy venture capitalists and very few individual Ohioans. This should never had been possible – as a Senator his staff should have locked it down and Trump’s staff should’ve doubled checked.

    Similarly, any male politician should keep his pro-life statements simple and general. Any attempt to “mansplain” will not end well not matter how sympathetic. That’s amateur hour again. After Alabama’s IVF decision, the Democrats will push women’s reproductive health and choices at any opportunity. Vance will blame the media for report his comments, but it’s his own inability to read the room and use common sense. No matter your own point of view, this is a winning issue for the Democrats especially as some male Republicans appear confused with reproduction, contraception, women’s health needs, etc.

    hrw

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  7. “we need to look at police budgets” is not the gotcha the Republicans think it is. Right wing libertarians to left wing anarchists all agree police budgets are over the top and money is better spent elsewhere. It common sense and coming from the party who wants to defund the FBI, you think it would welcome the bipartisan consensus.

    In a more general sense; there’s an interesting correlation between the size of the “security state” and the lack of equity in society. In general, we need less police if society has a lover level of inequality. Put simply, nordic societies need less cops than the US.

    When Harris talks about inequality and equity of opportunity, she’s not a communists, she’s repeating common knowledge about how society works. If people believe they have an equal opportunity to succeed they will “buy in” to current social norms. When people have less hope, they won’t participate nor will they accept current norms. People have to believe that around 18 to 25 years of age, they are at the same starting line. Nobody under 30 believes that right now. Hence, they are not trying and are living only for the moment – long term planning like a mortgage, a family etc are things society needs but are longer seeing in young people today.

    Ironically, Trump admits this in his speeches and increases the attitude when he proclaims America to be in decline. If Trump is right, why have kids? why save for a mortgage? Just buy a van and travel doing odd jobs and post on Instagram. Harris actually acknowledge Trump is right but points to one of the reasons — lack of equal opportunity, discusses it and may even have ideas to solve it.

    More irony, the independents who don’t like Harris include those left of the Democrat party who right now have no intention of voting. If the Republicans keep coming up with evidence for leftist thoughts, the real left might change its mind, stop calling her “copmala” and turn out to vote.

    hrw

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  8. Mumsee et al;

    Actually we don’t start out the same. Our parent’s DNA combination produces unique individuals some more favourable than others to survive in the modern world. And some parents behave better than others pre and post natal. FAS or any fetal drug combination guarantees some are not on the same starting line. And then there is a the social-economic issues post child birth into adult.

    Public education and society in general should work to mitigate the disparities in order to have an equal starting line – this isn’t communism, its basic sociology. People need to buy into society or they will work to deconstruct it, refuse to participate or even worse make sure they can’t.

    Vance actually makes that point in Hillbilly Elegy but buries it behind his own success – due to a grandfather with a union job and his own intelligence. He knows his relatives dropped out because their starting point was too far back from even his line.

    It’s one of the more frustrating parts of my job as a middle school teacher – incredible bright children who did not start out the same as the middle class kids in the same class.

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  9. Disagree, HRW. Though we said the same thing in the first paragraph. It really all comes down to choices. Either we make healthy choices or we don’t. But not everybody can grow up to be President, though everybody can grow up to be successful.

    mumsee

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  10. It is the choices we make; but some people have more choices than others.

    Here’s an example; I had a brilliant student from the projects. She knew she was smart but her intelligence was used to protect her older sister, take care of her infant/toddler half sister and keep her mom’s boyfriends at bay. I encouraged her to use gov’t grants and scholarships to go to uni (mainly to leave her mom). She went to university for a year – did well academically but described it as weird and uncomfortable. She went “home” – she felt responsible for her sister as she entered adolescence; mom’s need for bad boyfriends the unspoken issue. Last I heard she had her own place but she still kept an eye on her sister – attending parent teacher conferences, athletic events, etc. Even before she was 18, the elementary secretary would call her when her sister was sick. As the secretary pointed out – why bother calling mom, we all know who raises the kid.

    My former student is not on the same starting line as the middle class kids in the same class. And she doesn’t have the same choices as her classmates. She knows it, her classmates knew it and as teachers we knew it. Our job as we saw it was to try and increase her choices but we knew she would never have the same number. Here is an example of the need for public education — to create a fairer starting line.

    Did she make bad choices – sure, she smoked weed to take care of mental health issues, drank alcohol to forget (quit drinking before she turned 18), etc. However, she didn’t have a mental therapist as a choice, I used my benefits and middle class connections to give my daughter the choice to have therapy and medication. Her mom didn’t offer those choices. My daughter didn’t have to drink to forget – she chose to drink as any teen and choose to be moderate in her drinking. Those in pain often don’t have that choice. My daughter chose to live with me full time as I could parent. My former student could only live with her mom. Her dad did 10 years for armed robbery and then died of a cocaine overdose. She couldn’t choose her parent.

    I could compare and contrast the list of choices some have and some don’t but the essential point remains we are not equal, we don’t have equal choices, and we are not on the same starting line.

    hrw

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  11. HRW,

    Sounds like your example is quite successful. She is contributing in a positive way.

    sounds like you have a different definition of success. What is it?

    mumsee

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